Interview with Shahīnah ʻAbd al-Laṭīf مقابلة مع شهينة عبد اللطيف

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:14 - Childhood and rural life

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Child labour; Childhood; Children's games; Embroidery; Farming practices; Fathers; Handicrafts; Intervillage relations; Peasants; Qurʼānic teaching; Rural life; Sabalān (Palestine); Siblings; Tobacco industry; Women education; Women in agriculture

00:08:06 - Traditional and community life

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Bridal customs; British colonialism; Clothing and dresses; Dabkah; Dairy products; Dietary practices; Dowry; Dwellings; Embroidery; Exports; Farm animals; Fertility; Furniture; Gifts; Gold; Groom Shower; Handicrafts; Invitations; Marriage; Marriage proposals; Mayors; Rural life; Socio-economic conditions; Tobacco industry; Uncles; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; Ḥaṭṭah

00:25:47 - British anti-Palestinian measures

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Keywords: Ambushes; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; British colonialism; Brutal treatment; Crimes against humanity; Home demolition; Jewish immigrants; Massacres; Revolutionaries; Tanks; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977

00:31:57 - Expulsion from Palestinian villages

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Blindness; Dispersion; Displacement; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Frustration; Home demolition; Identity cards; Jordan; Martyrs; Parents; Passports; Permits; Psychological warfare; Refugee experience; Return; Sabalān (Palestine); Shootings; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Burj al-Shamālī (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)